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[News] [Rival] Apple Continues to Snub Free Open Source Software

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Apple Continues to Snub Free Open Source Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:14:40 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Mozilla exec calls Apple's Safari plan 'duopolistic'

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| In the speech predicting how Apple would expand its market share, Jobs showed 
| a slide with Safari dominating almost a quarter of the market--a market 
| shared only with a single other browser, Internet Explorer.  
| 
| Lilly says he doesn't believe that this was an omission or simplification, 
| but instead an indication that Jobs is hoping to steal people who use Firefox 
| and other smaller browsers in order to run a "duopoly" with Redmond.  
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6191562.html


Related:

Browser wars: Mozilla exec calls Steve Jobs 'out-of-date'

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| Mozilla won't go away just because Jobs wills it, said Lilly, and he was 
| irked at the Apple CEO's attitude. "Today's connected world is no longer 
| constrained by the monopolies and duopolies and cartels of yesterday's 
| [software] distribution," said Lilly. "The Web belongs to people, not 
| companies.    
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9024941&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/22ylqu


Apple failing to understand open source

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| There is a cost for not being a good Open Source citizen and that
| cost is loss of goodwill in the community. That loss is more
| expensive in the long run than Apple realizes.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/apple_failing_to_understand_op.html

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